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(1) components for treatment hours, staffing ratios, salaries, fringe benefits, productivity, program support, and administrative costs; and

(2) information from the Department of Labor and Workforce Development, the United States Internal Revenue Service; and provider surveys. (e) Each July 1, if the rates of payment in the Chart of Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility Rates, adopted by reference in 7 AAC 160.900, are not reestablished under (d) of this section, the department will adjust the rates of payment in the Chart of Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility Rates for inflation using the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Home Health Agency Market Basket in the most recent quarterly publication of Global Insight’s Healthcare Cost Review available 60 days after July 1. (f) Notwithstanding(c), (d), and (e) of this section, the department will pay a flat rate of $211 per day to a residential psychiatric treatment center for each therapeutic transition day authorized for a recipient under 7 AAC 140.405(g). In this subsection, “therapeutic transition day” means a calendar day related to a hospitalization in a residential psychiatric treatment center that is authorized by the department for payment for services for a recipient under 21 years of age who has been stabilized and is therefore ready for transition or discharge. (Eff. 2/1/2010, Register 193; am 10/1/2011, Register 199; am 7/1/2019, Register 231; am 4/24/2020, Register 234; am 9/4/2022, Register 243) Statutory Authority: Authority: AS 47.05.010 AS 47.07.030 AS 47.07.040 7 AAC 145.630. Ambulatory surgical center payment rates. (a) The department will pay for services rendered in an ambulatory surgical center at the rate determined in accordance with 7 AAC 150. The department shall establish payment rates for each group code as assigned by the Ambulatory Surgical Center (ACS) Approved HCPCS Codes and Payment Rates spreadsheet, adopted by reference in 7 AAC 160.900. The department will pay the highest valued procedure of multiple procedures at 100 percent of the procedure’s group rate and all additional procedures will be paid at 50 percent of the procedure group rate. (b) A payment made under (a) of this section covers all operative functions attendant to medically necessary surgery performed at the clinic by a private physician or dentist, including admitting and laboratory tests, recipient history and examination, operating room staffing and attendants, recovery room care, and discharge. The payment includes all supplies related to the